What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 15

Another week in the books, and I'll be honest, I'm starting to feel some recipe burnout.

Here is what my family ate for dinner this week.

Sunday, June 8: We went out to dinner with Scott's parents and my Mom. We went to one of our favorites, Abuelo's. I love their carnita enchiladas!

Monday, June 9: After a day at Hollywood Studios, we arrived home to one of our favorites cooking in the slow cooker, buffalo chicken sliders. This is such an easy recipe and is a family favorite.

Tuesday, June 10: Dirty rice with turkey sausage. Aaron loves rice dishes, and this is one of his favorites.

Wednesday, June 11: Root beer BBQ pork tenderloin in the slow cooker. We love this recipe! It is so easy and makes plenty for leftovers.

Thursday, June 12: Chicken ranch tacos. I LOVE this recipe! It is so easy, so delicious and makes plenty for leftovers.

Friday, June 13: Leftover night. Seriously, I don't know how we end up with so many leftovers during the week.

Saturday, June 14: Meatball subs. Again, really simple. I just brown the meatballs and toss into a marinara sauce.

I hope you enjoy and if you have any must try recipes, let me know!

What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 14

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. We have been enjoying the time with my Mom and have been introducing her to different places around town.

Here is what my family ate for dinner this week...and they are Busia approved!

Sunday, June 1: I found this yummy marinade for pork chops on Pinterest. Scott threw them on the grill with some asparagus and used some reserved marinade for both the chops and asparagus. I also made some Annie's mac 'n' cheese to go with it. This recipe will definitely stay in the rotation.

Monday, June 2: Mexican Quinoa Bowls. This is one of Scott's favorite recipes and if he could make it once a week he would.

Tuesday, June 3: I made one of Aaron's favorites, chicken broccoli alfredo. All you have to do is cook up a couple of chicken breasts, slice them, add to some pasta, toss in some broccoli and light alfredo sauce. It's that simple.

Wednesday, June 4: The kiddos graduated kindergarten, so we went to one of their favorite restaurants for dinner, Chuy's.

Thursday, June 5: We introduced Busia to Aaron's all time favorite meal, turkey burger casserole.

Friday, June 6: Spaghetti Bolognese. I love this recipe and make little tweaks each time I make it. I also used the multigrain gluten free spaghetti from Target (Simply Balanced brand). It's so good! You cannot even tell the difference.

Saturday, June 7: After a hot round of mini golf, we grilled some hot dogs. It was the perfect summer dinner.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to enjoying these last few days with Busia! Hope you enjoy!

What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 10

Another week in the books over here. With school winding down and it being so flippin' hot outside, meals are getting interesting to say the least.

Here's what my family ate for dinner this week:

Sunday, May 4: We went to EPCOT to celebrate the kiddos birthday and I was hoping our gigantic lunch would hold everyone over and we could get by with snacks. Then I remembered my son. So we ordered a pizza on the way home. Not healthy, but ridiculously delicious.

Monday, May 5: Aaron and Jillian were able to pick wherever they wanted to go for their birthday dinner. Being Cinco de Mayo babies, they chose Chuy's. I'm so proud! Scott and I split the fajitas for two and then remembered that we should really just split one order.

Tuesday, May 6: I had acupuncture, so it was every man, woman and child for themselves.

Wednesday, May 7: I found this crazy delicious (and EASY) recipe on Skinny Mom. It's skinny sausage and peppers. Now, being from Chicago, I LOVE sausage and peppers, especially when the tomato sauce is scalding your hand as it runs out of the bun. Oooooh so good. However, since this was a skinny recipe, no bun. To be honest, you don't need it. The only change we made was we used chicken sausage instead of turkey. It saved some calories.

Thursday, May 8: Another Skinny Mom recipe - Sour Cream Enchiladas. Seriously, I don't know what it is about this dish that makes it so delicious.

Friday, May 9: Quinoa Spaghetti with turkey meatballs. Yeah, quinoa spaghetti. I tried the Simply Balanced spaghetti from Target. It's gluten free and made with a bunch of yummy stuff, including quinoa (can you tell I like to say quinoa?). I paired it with their roasted vegetable sauce and some turkey meatballs.

Saturday, May 10: Aaron really wanted chicken kiev's, like to the point he asked Scott to take a
picture of him in front of them at Publix. His wish was granted and I'm pretty sure he thanked me a dozen or so times.

I hope you enjoy and to all my fellow Momma's out there, enjoy your day tomorrow!

What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 9

Another week and another child with strep. Sigh...

I honestly have lost track of how many times Jill has had strep this school year. Hopefully we will be able to have her tonsils pulled over the summer so we do not have a repeat of this next year.

Anyway, back to the real reason you're here. This is what my family ate for dinner this week:

Sunday, April 27: Turkey Burger Casserole. I know, this is made biweekly in our house. It is one of Aaron's favorite meals.

Monday, April 28: Brown Rice with Roasted Veggies and Chicken. This was DELICIOUS! Aaron had two servings of it, with all of the veggies. You can really tailor this to your family. We used carrots, green beans, corn and asparagus. It also warms up really well.

Tuesday, April 29: Tuesday's are crazy in our house. Scott and I both had sandwiches (on thin sandwich bread) with our addiction, Angie's White Cheddar Popcorn.

Wednesday, April 30: Zesty BBQ Chicken. This is one of my favorite slow cooker meals. Instead of using hamburger buns, we used the sandwich thins. I served it with some corn and zucchini.

Thursday, May 1: Chicken Broccoli Alfredo. I happened to have a spare jar of light alfredo sauce in the pantry, so I threw that with some grilled chicken and orecchiette pasta.

Friday, May 2: Crescent Roll Pizza Ring. I posted this recipe yesterday. It was pretty easy and seriously delicious.

Saturday, May 3: Ground Turkey Tacos. Tacos are the most popular meal in our house. Naturally, but tacos I mean nachos.

I hope you enjoy!

What My Family Ate for Dinner - Week 8

Another week and maybe another week of not the best eating.

Here's what my family ate for dinner this week:

Sunday, April 20: Easter! We had a late lunch of ham, green beans, potato wedges and birds nest cupcakes.

I got the idea for the cupcakes from a friends Facebook post. It was actually a cake and the directions were in Italian. I brushed off my three semesters of Italian and did my best to translate the directions.

For the cupcake version I cheated and used boxed cake mix and canned frosting. I used chocolate sprinkles to create the "nest" and cadbury robin's eggs for the eggs. They were delicious and the perfect dessert for Easter.

Monday, April 21: My favorite part about Easter is the leftovers. I always make hot ham and cheese sandwiches. I put them on King's Hawaiian rolls and made a side of roasted asparagus. Yum!

Tuesday, April 22: Mexican Quinoa Bowl. This has quickly become on of Scott's favorite dishes. We love it the next day, too, which is always a plus!

Wednesday, April 23: It was my birthday so we went out to my favorite Mexican restaurant, Abuelo's. I had my favorite, the carnita enchilada and maybe a margarita...or two.

Thursday, April 24: I had an acupuncture appointment (I KNOW!), so we did leftovers.

Friday, April 25: I met my friend Michelle for dinner at Chili's to celebrate my birthday.

Saturday, April 26: We were supposed to have turkey burger casserole tonight, however, we were in the garage doing a lot of work (you know, when it's 90 degrees), so we opted to have pizza brought in instead.

It's not the worst menu we've had, but it's not the best. I should mention this does not include the various birthday lunches I was treated to. I have a lot of green goodness in my future to flush out all of this!

What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 7

Welcome to another week of "What My Family Ate For Dinner!" Let's dive right in...

Sunday, April 13: We went to Chuy's with my in-laws. Scott and I order the chicken fajitas for two and really, we should have just ordered a single order and split it. Well, then we wouldn't have leftovers...hmmm

Monday, April 14: Skinny Chicken Pot Pie is one of our favorite slow cooker recipes. With the biscuit, it's only 278 calories per serving. Yeah, it's awesome.

Tuesday, April 15: Ah, taco Tuesday! I use ground turkey instead of beef and La Tortilla Factory tortillas. Well, under normal circumstances I use those tortillas, but I made nachos instead.

Wednesday, April 16: Jambalaya with andouille and fresh asparagus. This is one of my favorite meals and even better as leftovers the next day! I just use reduced sodium Zatarains jambalaya mix to keep it simple.

Thursday, April 17: Sometimes all you want is a burger, so turkey burgers it is! We paired our burgers with some sauteed zucchini and it was perfection!

Friday, April 18: I was at social hour, so the rest of the family enjoyed leftovers.

Saturday, April 19: We kept it simple today because we spent most of the day running around (literally and figuratively), so we had turkey dogs with yellow squash and zucchini.

I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we do!

What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 6

It was a crazy week, again, but we tried out a few new recipes and had a few of our favorites. Here's what my family ate for dinner this week...

Sunday, April 6: Turkey Burger Casserole made its way back into the rotation. This is one of our most favorite recipes. I paired it with some fresh asparagus to give us an extra green veggie with dinner.

Monday, April 7: I found this recipe for pork tenderloin cooked in BBQ sauce and diet root beer on Skinny Mom and I can safely say it is definitely staying in the rotation. I also cut this recipe in half, there is no way we would eat 4lbs of pork tenderloin.

Instead of using a hamburger bun, we opted for the sandwich thins. I think we are going to start doing that for anything bun related. I'm going to try it with turkey burgers this week, I'll let you know how that works out for us.
The whole meal, with veggies, was under 300 calories for a serving. Boom.

Tuesday, April 8: I made another favorite of ours, white bean chicken chili. This recipe makes a ton and it is so filling. It heats up really well for leftovers, too.

Wednesday, April 9: We had leftovers because of parent-teacher conferences. I have found that we almost always have a leftover night now, which is a good problem to have.

Thursday, April 10: I found this yummy recipe on Pinterest and it's great because it's a one pot recipe. It also has quinoa, which is my new favorite, even though I'm convinced I have it in my teeth after every meal.

This Mexican Quinoa Bowl pairs great with a dollop of light sour cream, some reduced fat cheddar or Mexican cheese and a few tortilla chips.

This also warmed up really well the next day for leftovers.

Friday, April 11: Another Skinny Mom recipe! This Creamy Tortellini with Veggies was SOOOO delicious and filling!

My biggest change to this recipe would be to add some fresh cracked black pepper. It definitely needed some.

I hope you're enjoying all of these recipes! You know we are :)

What My Family Ate For Dinner - Week 5

We finally got back on track this week (kind of). It was great being away and enjoying all the yummy Southern food, but your waistline can only handle so much of that, right? Here's what we ate this week...

Sunday, March 30: We met up with my niece Lorren and her boyfriend (referred to as "the boyfriend" by the kids). We had a late lunch, so it was just snacks that night.

Monday, March 31 AND Tuesday, April, 1: Meatball Stroganoff with roasted asparagus. I love this recipe, but it makes SO much! We enough for lunch and dinner on Tuesday.

Wednesday, April 2: I found this yummy Pork Stew recipe and it's so simple! Plus, you can customize it to your own tastes.

Aaron had THREE helpings of this and ate every veggie I put in it (mushrooms, carrots, celery, red potatoes, tomatoes and onion).

All you have to do for this recipe is brown your pork chops, chop your veggies, throw everything in your slow cooker with some seasonings and let it cook for 8 hours. Top it with some parmesan cheese and dig in!


Thursday, April 3: Here's where the 'kind of' comes into play. After a pretty crazy day my frolleague (you know, friend who's also a colleague) and I were talking about dinner and she said they were having pizza. I instantly sent a text to Scott that simply read, "Pizza." We were both sold. It was perfection.

Friday, April 4: The 'kind of' continues. PawPaw gave us quite a scare and while Scott met him at the hospital, I grabbed the kiddos and went home. The veggie gumbo we were going to have sat a little too long in the slow cooker. It was not pleasant looking. We both snacked that night.

Saturday, April 5: I found this super stuffed potato recipe on Prevention's website and it is ridiculously delicious. I did cheat and use the microwavable baked potatoes because it is already in the upper 80's down here. The idea of running my oven at 425 for an hour just makes me miserable.

The potatoes are stuffed with broccoli, turkey bacon and a cheese sauce that you make yourself. It was definitely filling, especially since we paired it with a salad.

Aaron even had some of this and enjoyed it.

I hope you enjoy!